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Community Meeting on Proposed Donegal/Saltlick Deep Mine Scheduled
WHAT: Community Meeting on Proposed Donegal/Saltlick Deep Mine WHEN: Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM WHERE: Highlands Hall, Route 381 & 711 On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 the Mountain Watershed Association…
Read MoreDeep Mine Permit Submitted in Gateway to Laurel Highlands
The LCT Limited Liability Corp submitted a full application for the Rustic Ridge mine to the Department of Environmental Protection on April 7. For more information on this proposal see…
Read MoreOSM Issues Cessation Order to Amerikohl, Amerikohl Appeals
As a result of a follow-up inspection conducted on the Curry Mine site (see our write-up about the first inspection here), OSM has issued a cessation order to Amerikohl requiring…
Read MoreMWA Accompanies OSM on Curry Mine Inspection
Yesterday our Yough Riverkeeper Krissy Kasserman and Community Advocate Nick Kennedy attended an Office of Surface Mining inspection of the Curry Mine site. Admittedly, it was raining. That said, during…
Read MoreOSM determines timbering on Curry site is related to mining
The backstory… We’ve been wrangling with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Amerikhol Mining over erosion & sedimentation issues on the Curry mine site along the Yough in…
Read MoreHouse to Vote on Endangered Species Bill as Early as March 10
The following is an except of a letter prepared by the Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water‘s Exceptional Value Workgroup (of which MWA is a member) regarding HB 1576, the Endangered…
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